"Adam Had 'em."
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"Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes" (early 20th c.)
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Strickland Gillilan
1869 – 1954
Strickland W. Gillilan (1869–1954) was an American journalist, author, poet, humorist and speaker. He is most famous for the poem "The Reading Mother", which remains a popular poem on Mother's Day. He is also recognized as the author of "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", said to be the shortest poem ever written.
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